Society guideline links: Appendicitis in children

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Appendicitis in adults".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis, update of the Jerusalem guidelines (2020)

●WSES: The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective – Guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections (2017)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't use computed tomography (CT) for the evaluation of suspected appendicitis in pediatric patients until an ultrasound has been considered as an option (2024)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't do computed tomography (CT) for the evaluation of suspected appendicitis in children until after ultrasound has been considered an option (2021)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't order C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in children with suspected appendicitis (2021)

United States

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guideline on complicated intraabdominal infections – Risk assessment, diagnostic imaging, and microbiological evaluation in adults, children, and pregnant people, update (2024)

●Surgical Infection Society (SIS): Guidelines on the management of intra-abdominal infection, update (2024)

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Clinical policy – Critical issues in the evaluation and management of emergency department patients with suspected appendicitis (2023)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on suspected appendicitis – Child (2018)

Europe

●European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES): Consensus statement for diagnosis and management of acute appendicitis – Consensus development conference 2015 (published 2016)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Don't do computed tomography (CT) for the evaluation of suspected appendicitis in children and young adults until after ultrasound has been considered as an option (2016)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Emergency Pediatrics (JSEP): Evidence-based children's abdominal emergency practice guidelines – Part II: Pediatric acute appendicitis practice guidelines (2017)